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crimycarny

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33. Oh puhleeze

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 06:14 PM

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I’m talking about my job category/name from my employer. They categorize the roles as Systems Tech Level 1, Systems Ops Level II, Systems Ops Level III, Systems Engineer Level III, Systems Engineer Level IV, Systems Architect. I’m a Systems Engineer Level IV which is why I “call” myself that. “You can’t call yourself an engineer”… geezus.

My point was that having a college degree doesn’t always equate to being competent. And conversely not having a college degree doesn’t equate to incompetence or less skilled. Steve Jobs, for example, dropped out of college after one semester. Michael Dell (Dell computers) dropped out of college at 19. Your focus on title, “Engineer”, sort of proves my point. There are many who never got the official “title” but ran circles around those who did.

Mikewayne Mullin could have a PhD and still be as unqualified as he is now. That was my point.

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